Saturday, March 03, 2012

Police districts close in cost-cutting planThe Chicago Police Department plans to close two of its district stations Sunday, part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s cost-cutting plans to ease a $636 million budget gap.

You see...it isn't just that gays want marriage and other benefits but they also want the power to step on anybody who disagrees with them... Believe it or not I don't give a shit what adults do for sex...You have every right to be as homo as you like... BUT DON'T TELL ME IT'S NORMAL FOR A MAN TO EAT ANOTHER MAN'S ASS, TO STICK THEIR FIST UP ANOTHER MAN'S ASS OR TO SCREW ANOTHER MAN IN THE ASS... IT ISN'T NORMAL! But we are now coming to a time when it will soon be illegal to say such a thing...

Former Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron is taking heat from GLAAD after remarks made on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight.

During Friday's interview, Cameron called homosexuality "unnatural" and "destructive."

"I think that it's unnatural. I think that it's detrimental and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization," the actor, who played Mike Seaver on the 1980s TV series, said on the program.

Cameron, who is an evangelical Christian, also spoke out against gay marriage.

"Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either," Cameron said. "So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't."

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation issued a statement in response to the actor's recent appearance on the CNN program.

“In this interview, Kirk Cameron sounds even more dated than his 1980s TV character,” said Herndon Graddick, senior director of programs at GLAAD, in a statement. “Cameron is out of step with a growing majority of Americans, particularly people of faith who believe that their gay and lesbian brothers and sisters should be loved and accepted based on their character and not condemned because of their sexual orientation.”

Graddick also addressed Cameron's remarks regarding gay marriage: “With an increasing number of states recognizing marriage equality, Americans are seeing that marriage is about committed couples who want to make a lifelong promise to take care of and be responsible for each other and that gay and lesbian couples need equal security and legal protections. That’s not ‘redefining’ anything.".

2AM in the morning and two cars flying together go through a chain link fence and hit an oil pipeline??? This does not sound good....This is more than just an auto accident....

Two men were killed, including a firefighter, and three critically injured early Saturday when their vehicles struck an oil pipeline in New Lenox Township, officials said.

At 2:05 a.m., Will County sheriff’s police and New Lenox firefighters responded to the explosion of an Enbridge Energy pipeline in an industrial park east of Schoolhouse Road and south of Old Plank Road Trail, reports said.

A Ford Mustang with two people inside and an SUV with three occupants were apparently side by side when they went through a chain link fence and traveled approximately 125 feet onto the property before striking the pipeline, igniting the crude oil inside.

A 35-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were charged today with the Friday afternoon shooting of a Chicago police officer on the Far South Side. Andre Miles, 35, of the 10500 block of South Maryland Avenue was charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery, police said. He’s expected in court Sunday. The 16-year-old boy was charged with aggravated battery as a juvenile but police didn’t release additional information about him.

This image is clearly racist...There is no female white desk cop who looks that sexy! But everything else looks real to me....

Photo: Police officials in Bavaria have banned officers from hanging copies of a calender featuring racist caricatures in their offices.

Responding to criticism over allegedly racist caricatures in an annual calendar issued by their union, officials in Bavaria have banned police from hanging it in their offices. The union claims the cartoons are merely poking fun at police jargon, but groups including Amnesty International say the caricatures go too far.

Police in Munich have been ordered to remove a calendar produced by one of the state's police unions from their offices, because the cartoons it features have been deemed to be racist and otherwise insensitive.

Munich police chief Wilhelm Schmidbauer this week ordered police workers not to hang the calendar, a police spokesman said. The Bavarian chapter of the national German Police Union, which distributed 3,000 copies of the calendar, has defended itself against the accusation.

The dispute centers around a caricature featured on the calendar's March page that features an arrested black man depicted with thick red lips. The contents of a speech bubble coming from the man's mouth, written in broken German, include a pun on the German word for suppressing evidence that is an apparent play on a "darkening" of the population in Germany.

Alexander Bosch of the human rights organization Amnesty International criticized the cartoon as being "very clearly racist."

'Might Be Misinterpreted'

Another image in the calendar shows young men beating each other up who all appear to be of immigrant origin. A January caricature of the Bible's Three Wise Men features a black wise man who has to collect camel manure. August, meanwhile, features a suicide bomber and a police man who tells the terrorist: "Hurry up and blow yourself up! I have other things to do today!"

A spokesperson for the Munich police force said officials were concerned the caricatures might be misinterpreted. "In order to send out a message that they will not be misunderstood, the calendars are no longer allowed to be hung here," he added. Munich police chief Schmidbauer told public radio station Bayerischer Rundfunk that the comics were incompatible with the values of the police force, even if the freedom of expression through art is an important part of Germany's constitution.

But Hermann Benker, the head of the union responsible for distributing the calendar, defended the images. "I can't understand what all the fuss is about," he said. "People are acting as if there is no such thing as police jargon." The jokes in the comics, he said, were a play on this jargon. "It's a type of gallows humor that our understaffed police colleagues have used for years now to get by. It has nothing to do with the disparaging of any group of people."

Benker said his organization has produced the calender for six years without any complaints -- at least up until now.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi today publicly endorsed Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. in his re-election bid against primary challenger Debbie Halvorson, saying the state needs him as the lone Illinois congressman on the House Appropriations Committee.

The show of support came after Pelosi appeared with the veteran congressman's father, Rev. Jesse Jackson, at Operation PUSH headquarters in the city's Kenwood neighborhood. Pelosi noted more than $940 million in projects have gone to the state's 2nd Congressional District.

"Jesse Jackson Jr. comes from a proud tradition. He came to the Congress and is making his own mark there," said Pelosi, D-Calif.

"He deserves re-election and we're all going to do everything we can to make sure that happens — for many reasons. Personal, that is to say, his own personal leadership. Committee-wise, you wouldn't want to give up a committee position … that serves this community, this entire state, so well," she said.

Though Jackson also has the endorsements of President Barack Obama and Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Pelosi is the highest-ranking Democrat to actually appear in public with Jackson in his campaign against Halvorson, a former one-term congresswoman from Crete.

TEMPE, AZ - Thirteen people were wounded in a shooting at a Tempe, Arizona, nightclub during a rap concert, police said on Saturday.

Tempe Police spokesman Sergeant Steve Carbajal said officers responded to reports of shots fired at the Clubhouse Music Venue at 11:30 p.m. Friday local time.

Carbajal said police had identified 13 victims from the incident. Two were in serious condition at local hospitals.

"Witnesses have reported that after the shooting, two black males wearing dark colored clothing fled the scene on foot," Carbajal said. "Those individuals have not been located at this time."

Rapper Nippsy Hustle was scheduled to appear at the club, according to the venue's web site. Local television news reported that gunfire erupted outside the club shortly before Hustle took to the stage.

Cellphone video of the shooting aftermath taken by a concert goer showed a man taking off his t-shirt to use as a tourniquet on a shooting victim.

Early Saturday, uniformed police had the crime scene at a strip mall sealed off behind yellow tape as plainclothes detectives continued their investigation.

A debris field spread across the parking lot indicated panic as a curbside party broke up outside the club. Plastic cups and other trash littered the area by the entrance, with empty tequila and cognac bottles tossed in the parking lot.

Lisa Tortorello will be in beautiful Dyer, Indiana today at the COFFEE BEANERY located at 425 Joliet Road #221 Dyer, Indiana.Lisa will be signing her best selling book, MY HERO, MY DING.Lisa is a Chicagoan and wife of a Chicago Firefighter....Stop out and say hello!

Two alleged gang members were charged with attempted murder and a third released after they were accused of trying to run over an off-duty Chicago Police officer who booted them from a Little Village restaurant for their rowdy behavior Wednesday night.

Oscar Cervantes, 19, of 3766 W 75th Place and Raymundo Rodriguez,17, of the 2500 block of Kenilworth Avenue in Berwyn, were charged with one count each of attempted murder, said police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez.

Cervantes was expected to appear in court today, while Rodriguez, who was the driver, remains hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the head after the officer shot him, according to another police source. A third suspect was released without being charged.

The almighty Swoosh is suddenly in an unlikely — if not uncomfortable — position: playing defense.

Nike, the world’s largest sneaker maker, with revenue topping $20 billion last year, is mostly watching from the sidelines as its name has been linked with Negro consumers rioting outside shopping malls in Florida and Maryland over limited access to the $220 basketball shoe Foamposite One Galaxy.

The release of the $180 Air Jordan XI shoe before Christmas also caused a riot at a mall in Indianapolis, fights in Seattle and a stabbing in Jersey City.

For Nike, industry dominance comes at a price. While the brand has successfully stayed cool — if not cutting-edge — over nearly 40 years in the highly competitive sneaker business, the way it stays on top may need to evolve in a fast-changing world of social media that has greatly democratized knowledge of and access to its newest and coolest shoes.

In the recent past, folks who crave the newest Nike sneakers would likely hear about it from inside channels, says John Horan, publisher of the newsletter Sporting Goods Intelligence. Under that scenario, maybe 100 or 200 insiders would show up at the mall for the new shoe’s release. But with social media as the new information forum that’s widely available to everyone, says Horan, “instead of 100 people lined up, you have 1,000 — or more.”

Nike declined to detail how it’s coming to grips with the situation. “As with the launch of all Nike products, consumer safety and security is of paramount importance,” Nike spokesman KeJuan Wilkins said in a statement.

Former Mayor Richard Daley today denied allegations that he was part of a broader torture conspiracy involving disgraced former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge.

Daley’s written response was filed in federal court in answer to a 2010 lawsuit by Michael Tillman, who has alleged that he was beaten, burned, smothered and threatened with death in 1986 by Chicago detectives working under Burge to coerce him to confess to the rape and murder of a South Side woman.

Daley was sued in the Tillman lawsuit for both his tenure as mayor as well as Cook County state’s attorney, a post he held from 1981 to 1989.

A West Humboldt Park neighborhood man will be court Saturday accused of hurling his girlfriend’s dog off a porch, breaking its leg last month while the couple fought.

Darrick Sharkey, 24, of the 4200 block of West Iowa Street, was charged one count of aggravated cruelty to animals, a felony, police said.

During an argument, Sharkey reportedly told his girlfriend: “This is what you get for calling the cops on me’’ before throwing his girlfriend’s Scottite breed dog “Blue Ivory” onto the concrete in an alley behind his house on Feb. 25, police said.

CHICAGO, IL - Plainclothes officer Luis Novalez knew he had his man the minute he laid eyes on the guy trying hard to blend into a crowd getting on a CTA bus near Clark and Division streets.

There was red dye splattered all over his jeans -- dye apparently hidden in a pack of money from a bank robbed just an hour ago.

"At that point I knew this is the guy,” said Novalez, with the Near North police district. “There’s no way he’s getting away.”

The suspect fled down the stairs of the Red Line subway stop but didn't get far. Novalez and his two partners -- officers Anthony Odeshoo and John McCarthy -- grabbed him and pulled him to the ground.

The man is facing federal charges of robbing the North Community Bank at 800 N. State St., authorities said. The robber, wearing a blue jacket, walked into the bank around 11 a.m., according to FBI spokeswoman Joan Hyde. She did not know if he was armed.

Maurice Henderson knew trouble was heading his way. When the Chicago Crime Commission recently published a book naming him as a leader of the Imperial Insane Vice Lords street gang, it was only a matter of time before someone at the Maywood courthouse put two and two together, said the 46-year-old clerk who transports documents from courtrooms. Thursday afternoon, the trouble hit the fan.

In the days following the discovery of a grisly grave-reselling scandal at Burr Oak Cemetery in the summer of 2009, Cook County sheriff's Detective Robert Carroll walked into his sergeant's office and handed over his gun and badge.

By then, Carroll says, he had tripped over a half-buried pelvis, been slapped and spit on by family members of the deceased and found himself face-to-face with a decaying corpse in a blue burial suit.

Carroll has alleged in a federal lawsuit that the gruesome scene triggeredpost-traumatic stress disorderfrom his service in the first Gulf War two decades earlier.

Carroll's lawyers contend the sheriff's office refused his request for desk duty and then retaliated by trying to move him to patrol duty on an overnight shift.

Paramedics were at the scene of an accident involving a police vehicle this morning on Michigan Avenue near Oak Street.

The accident happened shortly after 8 a.m. on the 1000 block of North Michigan Avenue, said Police news Affairs Officer Robert Perez. Preliminary information stated an 18th District officer was involved in an accident, but there was no additional information available.

Chicago, IL - Police are hoping the arrest of two black men who punched a white woman and grabbed her purse in Bucktown this morning will “clear up” a rash of similar muggings that have been plaguing that Northwest Side community recently.

A man exited a car and slugged the victim in the side of her face - knocking her down - before snatching her purse and fleeing in the vehicle with two other men, said Shakespeare District Police Lt. Michael Mulkerin.

Authorities charged 17-year-old Travion Lockett, of the 2200 block of West Maypole, for hitting her in the face and asssiting a 16-year-old boy with the robbery. Police didn’t identify the younger boy.

Then Rahm pays the illegal beaners in Pilsen to celebrate the closing of these plants..The illegals never liked these plants because THEY DON'T HIRE ILLEGALS...So in one of the worse economies in a long time...Chicago celebrates people losing their jobs!

Residents of Pilsen and Little Village celebrated a victorious end to their long fight for cleaner air on Thursday, exultant over the deal that will shut down two coal-fired power plants that have for years been unwelcome neighbors.

"Ain't no power like the power of the people," chanted about 80 people who gathered Thursday morning at Dvorak Park near the Fisk power plant in Chicago's Pilsen community.

Under a deal announced Wednesday between the city and the plants' owner, Midwest Generation, the Fisk plant will close by the end of this year and the Crawford plant in Little Village will shut down by the end of 2014.

"It's good to know that when people unite, they will be heard," said Leila Mendez, 54, a member of the Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization, one of several groups that worked to raise awareness about the harmful toxins spewed by the plants' smokestacks. "Words cannot describe how I feel."

Chicago is the only major city in the nation that still has coal-burning plants operating within its borders. The plants, built in the early 1900s, are two of the oldest in the U.S., and previous plans called for them to be shut down in 2015 and 2018. Pressure from residents and city officials, along with competition from cleaner energy sources, led Midwest Generation to accelerate the closings.

As a result of Wednesday's agreement, activist groups, including the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago and the Sierra Club, will drop their lawsuit against the power company.

The agreement also provides for a community advisory council made up of residents, activists and Midwest Generation representatives that will develop a plan to clean up and sell the property where the plants sit, said Faith Bugel, a senior attorney at the Environmental Law and Policy Center.

According to a 2010 Clean Air Task Force study, the two plants are responsible for about 42 premature deaths, 720 asthma attacks and 66 heart attacks. A 2010 National Research Council report said the plants lead to about $127 million in hidden health costs per year.

Margarita Bravo, 49, a member of the Pilsen Alliance who has been protesting the plants for a year, said her nephew Gumaro Martinez, 13, has had asthma since he was 4 months old.

"We're happy that they're finally going to close (the plants)," Bravo said. "Too many people have been affected by them."

The "MMM", Michael Madigan Mafia, wants to dump almost a billion dollars of new property taxes on your existing property tax bills....ALL THE MONEY THESE ASSHOLES WERE SUPPOSE TO BE PAYING INTO THE PENSION FUNDS EACH YEAR BUT THEY DIDN'T...INSTEAD SPENDING THAT MONEY ON CORRUPT CONTRACTS, KICKBACKS and BRIBES!

Illinois voters better start lobbying their lawmakers, or they’re going to be hit with a whopping property tax hike in coming years and see schools unable to educate their children.

Gov. Pat Quinn, Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) and House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) all have talked about shifting the state’s obligation for paying teacher pensions onto local school districts.

That’s about $800 million a year that homeowners and businesses will have to pick up on their property tax bills.

Buena Park, California - A gunman who had been holed up with a hostage inside a Buena Park bank was shot and critically wounded Thursday when he stepped outside with his hostage to retrieve an item that he had demanded police bring to him, authorities said.

Police declined to say what the item was, only that the shooting broke out once the gunman walked outside.

The would-be bank robber was taken to the UC Irvine trauma center. The hostage -– who is the bank manager -– was rescued unharmed by police, said Buena Park Police Chief Corey Sianez.

Police said the bank manager was with the suspect when he was shot.

Six bank customers were released by the gunman earlier in the ordeal, which began just after 11 a.m. at Saehan Bank on Beach Boulevard.

Authorities said they are classifying the incident as an attempted robbery, though there have been reports the incident was set off by a personal matter. Sianez declined to comment. Cpl. Andy Luong said the gunman was uncooperative as police tried to negotiate with him.

Sgt. Bill Kohanek said the suspect is 45 years old and of Korean descent. In an interview before police entered the bank, Kohanek said authorities had some contact with the gunman, but his demands were unclear.

"It sounds like a very angry person," Kohanek said.

In contrast to earlier reports that the gunman had ordered bank customers and employees out, Kohanek said the gunman allowed them to leave at the request of police.

He did, however, keep the bank manager, described as a Korean woman, as a hostage, Kohanek said.

PALM BEACH, Fla. - The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office bomb squad was called to the Palm Beach home of Rush Limbaugh after security found a suspicious package Thursday afternoon.

The conservative talk-show host lives on the northern end of the island.

According to Palm Beach police, Rush Limbaugh’s security found a package containing an electronic plaque. Because it was electronic and had wires, they believed the package was suspicious and contacted authorities.

The package arrived Thursday around 4:30 p.m. and was reportedly sent from Wexford, Pennsylvania. Police were able to contact the sender who then apologized for sending something that could be construed as being dangerous.

BANGOR, Maine - The body of missing Seminole County firefighter Jerry Perdomo was found Wednesday in a wooded area in Maine, police said.

Perdomo's body was discovered in the town of Newburgh, State Police said.

An affidavit released earlier in the day shows that Perdomo's death involved illegal drugs, an unpaid debt, handguns, previous threats of violence and, ultimately, murder, according to a Maine State Police affidavit.

The dispute between Perdomo, 31, and his accused killer, Daniel Porter, dates back to at least Jan. 8, 2012, when Porter called law enforcement to accuse Perdomo of throwing rocks through the window of Porter's home in Newburgh, Maine, the affidavit revealed.

Perdomo told an investigating deputy that Porter had a machine gun and threatened to shoot him and put his body through a wood chipper. For his part, Porter claimed Perdomo threatened to cut off his hands and kill him, according to the affidavit.

On Wednesday, Feb. 15, Perdomo left his Orange City, Fla., home in a rented Toyota Camry and headed to Bangor, where he arrived the next morning and stayed with his girlfriend, Lisa Gould, investigators said.

Gould told police that Perdomo left her home around 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 16 armed with a Glock Model 30 .45-caliber handgun, his wallet and two cellphones. Perdomo said "he was going to meet someone who owed him money," the affidavit states. Cellphone records show Perodmo called Porter's phone at 6:07 p.m.

At 6:30 p.m., Perdomo met Nowak at a truck stop in Newburgh and followed her to Porter's father's home in Jackson, Nowak told investigators. Nowak said she last saw Perdomo with Porter at the house, when she left around 7 p.m. to pick up her son, according to the affidavit.

Cellphone records reveal that Perdomo called his wife Tonya at 6:08 p.m., 6:15 p.m. and 7:41 p.m. that evening. His last call with his wife ended at 7:45 p.m., with Perdomo saying he was riding on a dirt road in Maine, according to the affidavit.

Investigators said they believe it was at Porter's father's home in Jackson that Porter shot Perdoma to death.

Nowak said she returned to the house around 9 p.m. and did not see Perdomo's rented Camry at the property, according to the affidavit. Porter told her that Perdomo went back to his girlfriend's house in Bangor, officials said.

Nowak said she never went back inside the house because she and Porter argued and she left to spend the night at her mother's house in Brooks, according to the affidavit.

At 8:20 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, Porter was seen on surveillance video abandoning Perdomo's rental car in a Walmart parking lot, according to the affidavit. Seven minutes later, he was seen on a book store's surveillance video leaving the Walmart and crossing Stillwater Avenue, officials said.

Another camera, at a nearby grocery store, showed Porter throw a plastic bag into a garbage can just outside the store's entrance, according to the affidavit.

Later, the video shows Nowak and Porter reuniting at the grocery store, which is consistent with Nowak's claim that Porter called her and asked that she pick him up at the grocery store near the Walmart, according to the affidavit.

That afternoon, investigators learned, Porter borrowed a friend's pickup truck and "brought it back a couple hours later and it was all muddy."

Six days after Porter dumped the bag in the garbage, investigators searched a large trash container taken from the grocery story and hauled to an incineration plant in Orrington. In a plastic bag, they found Perdomo's car keys, as well as two cellphones, a wallet and other items, according to the affidavit.

The next day, investigators interviewed Porter in Connecticut, where he had gone to visit family. He lied about his whereabouts the previous weeks, investigators said, even when confronted with video of him dumping the car at the Walmart.

Amazing how these asswipes can blow millions of dollars on bullshit...never planning for tomorrow....

Former Chicago Bulls forward Orlando Woolridge has been released on bond after his arrest for stealing aluminum tubing at a drill site in DeSoto Parish in Louisiana.

Chief Deputy Patrick Cobbs, of the parish sheriff's office, said Wednesday that deputies arrested the 52-year-old Woolridge on Feb. 24 on a charge of theft of over $1,500. He was released after posting $2,000 bond.

Cobbs says Woolridge lives in the Mansfield area.

The Bulls drafted the 6-foot-9 Woolridge out of Notre Dame with the sixth pick in the 1981 draft. He played for several NBA teams from 1981-94.

He was suspended during the 1987-88 season for substance abuse. Woolridge retired from the NBA in 1994 but played two more years overseas. He has coached in the WNBA and currently coaches in the ABA.

Andrew Breitbart, the noted Internet publisher and author, has died, according to a source at Big Journalism. He was 43.

A statement posted on his website said that Breitbart died "unexpectedly from natural causes" this morning.

The Los Angeles Coroner's Office confirmed to ABC News Radio that Breitbart died shortly after midnight at UCLA Medical Center.

The following statement was posted on Breitbart's website today:

"With a terrible feeling of pain and loss we announce the passing of Andrew Breitbart.

We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior.

Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love.

Andrew recently wrote a new conclusion to his book, Righteous Indignation:

I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and—famously—I enjoy making enemies.

Three years ago, I was mostly a behind-the-scenes guy who linked to stuff on a very popular website. I always wondered what it would be like to enter the public realm to fight for what I believe in. I've lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I've gained hundreds, thousands—who knows?—of allies. At the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror, and I sleep very well at night.

Three alleged gang members were in police custody this morning after they tried to run down an off-duty police officer who booted them from a Little Village restaurant for their rowdy behavior, officials said.

The officer, who was working as a security guard at the Mexican restaurant in the 3100 block of West 26th Street, fired two shots into the car, grazing the vehicle's driver in the head after he pinned the cop against against a fence in the parking lot, according to Pat Camden, a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police, which represents the department's rank-and-file.

Chicago police confirmed the shooting, but couldn't provide specific details, saying it remained under investigation.

This posting is the opinion of Detective Shavedlongcock... The information contained in this posting was ascertained by researching the political candidates who are running for this office... NO CANDIDATES WERE PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN REGARDS TO THIS POSTING.

Let's not forget that the machine connected Fran Hurley's son Nicholas Dorgan was awarded a full political scholarship by Illinois State Senator Ed Maloney...These scholarships are now being severely criticized for the corrupt way they were "awarded".... (source: http://www.isbe.net/foia/default.htm)

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So let's look at the top two candidates in this race.....

You have Anthony Martin... A lifelong 1st responder, a experienced boss on the Chicago Fire Department, a experienced member on the Chicago Fire Department Pension Board, a person who volunteered with so many others to raise lots of money for the loved ones left behind by fallen firefighters and police officers... all long before he decided to run for a political office... Anthony Martin has a proven track record and EXPERIENCE.......

Or you can vote for the person the Democratic Machine is forcing down your throat.... Fran Hurley. The secretary to the alderman....

Please RESEARCH THIS YOURSELF.... DON'T BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE FOR..Instead make an educated decision... Voting over and over for the Michael Madigan approved candidate has bankrupted this state....IT'S TIME TO MAKE SOME CHANGES!

Blackhawks Alumni in a Softball game to benefit the Fire and Police Charities... is just one of many charity events that Tony Martin volunteers his time to in order to raise money for the families of 1st responders who are killed in the line of duty...

A Chicago Police officer falsely reported a raucous bar fight so he could avoid a possible DUI arrest and flee the scene in northwest suburban Niles, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday.

Sean Dailey, 33, was apparently hoping the suburban officer who had stopped him in the early morning hours of Nov. 5, 2010 would be asked to respond to the phony brawl at the Here’s Cheers bar on Oakton, prosecutors said.

The Niles officer did get called away, assistant state’s attorney Lynn McCarthy said. But en route, the officer’s colleagues relayed on the police radio that there was never a fight, so he returned to Milwaukee Avenue where Dailey had been parked. However, Dailey, an 11-year police veteran, was nowhere to be found, McCarthy said.

A former youth supervisor at a juvenile detention center in Joliet was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old male inmate, officials said.

On Tuesday, Will County Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak sentenced George E. Sabie to six years in prison, said Will County State’s Attorney’s office spokesman Chuck Pelkie. Sabie was convicted in October.

Sabie, 55, of Channahon, was charged with sexual assault, sexual misconduct and official misconduct. He is the father of two grown children and the alleged victim was in prison on burglary and home invasion charges.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Police have released surveillance images of a man who robbed and sexually assaulted a 26-year-old woman at knife-point last Friday while she was riding the CTA Red Line on the South Side.

About 4:55 a.m. the woman was riding southbound on a vacant Red Line between Roosevelt Road and 79th Street when she was sexually assaulted and robbed by a man armed with a knife, a Community Alert from police said.

The attacker fled at the 87th Street station, the alert said.

A community alert describes the suspect as a black man, between 20 and 25 years of age, with a slim build and a dark complexion. He was wearing a black hooded jacket and black clothing. He was armed with a black-handled knife with a long blade, police said.

A 17-year-old Streamwood High School student delivered a baby in the girls bathroom this morning, according to police.

Streamwood Deputy Chief Jim Gremo said around 9:20 a.m., the police officer who works in the school received a call on his radio to find the school nurse and to call paramedics after a student was found delivering a baby in the bathroom.

When the officer arrived, the student was sitting on the toilet, holding her baby boy, Gremo said.

A staff member in the hallway had heard her screams coming from the bathroom and alerted police, he said.

The student had been in a classroom when she left to go to the bathroom, said John Heiderscheidt, safety coordinator for Elgin-based School District U-46. She hadn’t been gone long when she was heard in the bathroom, he said.

Heiderscheidt said he could not say if school staff knew the student was pregnant.